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Hi Guy's

Off to Vegas in a few weeks not been for a while and have only just checked the dollars I had from last time. Most of it is in $100 notes are there any major problems that anybody knows of spending these in Vegas? Will bars and restaurants accept them or will I need to get them changed at the hotel? Will the hotel do this? Is it better to get them switched into smaller notes before I go or does it not matter?

I have am also going to email Harrahs to ask them if there are any issues doing this.

Cheers

No problems with changing them anywhere unless they're hooky.

They are totally standard, Rod, everybody uses them & all places take them without batting an eyelid.

Might be an idea to break one of them before you go.  It might save you an argument with your cabbie and also doesn't hurt if you want to tip a few $$ to a skycap/bellhop/taxi marshall/shuttle driver etc.

Thereafter, $100 are abso fine.

Part of my morning ritual when heading downstairs for breakfast each day is to push $100 through a bill breaking machine.  20x $1, 8 x $5 and some twenties.  Most days you will be going through it and over-tipping $20 because you don't have a $5 and cba to wait/ask for change adds up.

They seem more wary of $50 notes if anything.

Cheers all, didn't know about the bill breaking machines, thought they were just cash machines but that is great. I have some smaller notes as well for tips etc but didn't want the hassle of having to get them changed in Vegas if it was going to be a problem, obviously isn't. Thanks

Thin

Outside Vegas they aren't standard.

Was quite surprised at this.

everyday, saves a lot of hassle too

News to me too, but in Vegas, it's different, of course.

Just tip hundos

Not sure this is true.  I have never had any problems in Miami spending them.  They are certainly much less problematic than a fifty pound note would be in England.

This was why I asked to be honest. I once picked up some £50 notes at the cash desk at a casino in this country went to buy a round at the bar and had the same £50 note I had got at the cash desk refused at the bar. Like Tikay said I suppose Vegas is different.

I have always called £50 notes Casino Vouchers. It is the only place you can spend them.

Unless you work in wholesale, prostitution or pay cash for dodgy builders.

try going down south with only 5X £100 notes + some loose change on you over a bank holiday weekend (yes i was that man)

Ha yeah doubt there is a major city in the US where a hundo is ever a problem.

If you're really worried find me when you land. I got $3,000 a few weeks ago and they gave me a grand total of ONE $100 bill. The rest is in fifties/twenties etc ffs.

Have a good trip.

This ^^^

Essential start to any day in Vegas is the trip to the bill breaker

Happy enough if I can stick them through the machines and spend them anyway, you can have some if you really want, I assume you will be coming to Harrahs on the Thursday. You are just gonna stick your cash in the safe anyway so it won't be too much of an issue for you, not like you have to carry it about in which case it would be a pain in the ass. You always need smaller bills anyway as people have said for taxi fares and the like.

I am sure I can get rid of a few on the Pai Gow tables anyway :-)

Precisely - that or use them to buy in for cash at the poker tables! And yeah, I will change a couple for you so I'm not carrying so much paper.

I'll pop to Harrahs on the Thursday yes, but I dont check in there until Saturday morning.

Completely irrelevant, but I'd never seen a £50 note until I got a job at the old Grosvenor Luton as a dealer.

7 years later and I still haven't ever seen one out in open circulation, bar around Casino/Poker.

You usually get your first ever paycheck paid in cash, at least where I work, and I got paid out in £50 notes. I thought it was absolutely fantastic. Probably the only month in my life I hardly ever spent any money. Be damned if you could find someone to accept the blighters out in the real world.

Never realised Luton was so far north.

There is a 'gas' station on Flamingo (I think) that wouldn't accept a $100 bill after 9pm. That is the only problem I've ever had.

Touché

I think you'll find vegas a very accomodating place to anyone with some $100 bills to spend...

Never had a problem spending £50s myself. Just use them in restaurants and the like. They have to accept them.

I remember going to London last year. We went to Wetherspoons in the morning and the first thing I witnessed was a guy buying a £15 round using a £50. Welcome to London! was what I thought.

Gotta love £50s. People have to accept them in any major store. I always request £50 notes at the cashiers desk. Even if im cashing in £51. Feel like a baller spending them.

Not true. Shops can accept/refuse whatever they like.

It's only when settling debt (hence my example of restaurant) that legal tender comes into it.

Agreed my have to comment was wrong, however with the exception of 1 kebab shop ive mever had a shop refuse them in the last 5 years. And i live in leicester ffs ;-)

Nah, local Thomas Cook as they had best rates for my area.